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Re: Racist bullying
DIR By: guest5
Date: April 6, 2021, 12:38 am
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> In an interview with ESPN, Olympic gold medalist Chloe Kim,
20, said she has been the target of anti-Asian hate and racism
since winning her first snowboarding medal at age 13. Kim also
recently shared screenshots of racist messages she had received
on Instagram via an IG Story. Kim, who is Korean American, says
people ‘belittled’ her win because she was Asian. ‘There were
messages in my DMs telling me to go back to China and to stop
taking medals away from the white American girls on the team,’
Kim told ESPN.
>
> Kim says she is afraid for her parents’ and her own safety
amid an unprecedented rise in anti-Asian hate crimes and
violence against Asians. She revealed that she now carries
Tasers, pepper spray, and a knife for protection. ‘I never go
anywhere by myself unless it's for a quick appointment or I know
the place is crowded,’ said Kim.
>
> Kim joins dozens of other influential Asian and Asian American
athletes, celebrities, and activists in speaking up about the
racism they and others in the AAPI community have endured. Calls
to #StopAsianHate have skyrocketed following more than a year of
increased violence and attacks against Asians. In 2020, there
was a nearly 150% increase in hate crimes against Asians in the
U.S. The AAPI community has led the charge in raising awareness
about the crisis and providing resources for vulnerable Asian
populations across the country.
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Re: Sports as a platform for protest
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 18, 2021, 10:09 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ibtihaj-muhammad-says-religious-freedom-france-hijab-ban-154036813.html
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> Ibtihaj Muhammad won't stand for Islamophobia in France.
>
> Muhammad, who is a member of the U.S. fencing team and the
first Muslim woman to wear a hijab while competing in the
Olympics in the country's history, shared a photo of herself in
her fencing garb donning her hijab. Alongside the image, she
wrote about the French Senate passing an amendment that would
ban women from wearing their hijabs in public, which would
affect Muslim athletes who would also be prohibited from wearing
them at competitions, including nationally. She also opened up
about the challenges she's faced being a Muslim athlete.
>
> "Being the first Muslim woman in hijab on Team USA was a
journey riddled with obstacles, but never was I denied the
opportunity to play sport because of my faith. Religious freedom
is a human right. It’s painful to see how far France has
digressed and how normal virulent xenophobia has become," she
wrote in the caption. "My first world championships was actually
in Paris, France. It was held at the Grand Palais and one of my
most vivid memories of that competition was the support I
received from all of the French Muslims in the stands — my hijab
serving as a marker of the faith we shared."
>
> Muhammad also gave thanks to Les Hijabeuses and Lallab,
organizations that fight for the rights of Muslim women for
their work against Islamophobia.
>
> "Every woman should have the choice to wear what she wants and
the opportunity to play sport, regardless of her faith. We must
stand together and vehemently denounce discrimination in all of
its forms. Thank you to my French sisters @leshijabeuses and
@assolallab who continue to push against anti-Muslim and
anti-Islamic legislation, helping to defend not only the rights
of Muslim women in France, but for women around the globe," she
concluded.
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#Post#: 5793--------------------------------------------------
Re: Sports as a platform for protest
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 23, 2021, 4:41 am
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HTML https://sports.yahoo.com/olympics-protest-us-athletes-response-gwen-berry-202718086.html
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> American Olympians, along with a council representing all Team
USA athletes, criticized the International Olympic Committee on
Thursday for its reiteration of a ban on protests at the Games.
> ...
> "The IOC are hypocrites who continue to silence athletes for
capital gain. Again, they are on the wrong side of history. I
encourage all athletes to STAND in their power and do what they
feel is right!
> ✊🏾"
> ...
> Berry, who in 2019 protested systemic racism by raising her
fist on a Pan American Games podium, said the restrictions
wouldn't prevent her and others from demonstrating at the Tokyo
Olympics.
>
> "This doesn't deter me, or athletes like me, who want to talk
about issues that need to be recognized," Berry said. "We'll
speak out. We'll say what needs to be said. And we'll do what
needs to be done.
>
> "And we do have support from legal teams and maybe the USOPC."
> ...
> The USOPC AAC said in its statement: "Until the IOC changes
its approach of feeding the myth of the neutrality of sport or
protecting the status quo, the voices of marginalized athletes
will continue to be silenced.
>
> "We believe that athletes are humans first and athletes
second, and we stand firm in our commitment to empower, support,
and protect members of Team USA who use their platform to fight
for racial and social justice."
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Re: Sports as a platform for protest
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 10, 2021, 10:40 pm
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Contrast Ireland with Hungary:
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/sports/orb-n-defends-soccer-fans-112737996.html
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> BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán
on Thursday defended the soccer fans who booed the Irish
national team while they were kneeling as a sign of solidarity
against racism at a game this week.
> ...
> Before the match, the Hungarian soccer federation had already
released a statement indicating that the country's national team
would not kneel.
>
> Orbán said Hungarians only kneel before God, before their
country, and when they ask for the hand of their lovers.
>
> He also said Hungarians do not have the moral duty of those
from countries that had slavery.
>
> “Hungary has never been a slave-keeping country," he said. "We
cannot feel that moral weight that those countries do.”
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If forced labour is slavery, Hungary certainly was involved in
slavery:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Protocol
Ireland, on the other hand, is a country which truly was never
involved in slavery or any aspect of colonialism. Yet its
athletes kneel in solidarity with BLM. Therefore Orban is wrong.
It is because Ireland was not a colonial power that it finds it
easier to sympathize with the colonized elsewhere. It is because
Hungary was a colonial power that it still maintains the
colonialist attitudes.
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Re: Sports as a platform for protest
DIR By: guest5
Date: June 11, 2021, 12:03 am
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> "I think racism in football right now is at the all-time high.
Why? Because of social media now as well."
>
> Racism against black players is all too common in European
football, and the responses from official bodies such as the
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and the
International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) are
business as usual.
>
> Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku believes racism in football is
at an "all-time high" ahead of the start of the European
Championships. Lukaku, who often speaks out about the racial
abuse he endures, thinks abuse towards players is only getting
worse.
>
> "For me, to be honest, I don't really see progress. I see a
lot of campaigns and all that stuff, but really until there is
no real action taken."
>
> Lukaku has received racial abuse a number of times throughout
his football career, notably when he was subjected to ape-like
grunts and monkey chants by a number of home fans in 2019.
>
> The striker talked about the response to the racist abuse in
Italy, stating: “In practice we tried educating people on things
that aren’t good, because Italy is a really beautiful country
and I was mostly accepted by both home and away fans.”
>
> He added: “I think when it happened, something changed. That’s
what all leagues should do. They should talk to players and
basically try to start doing things with the players and teams.”
>
> When it comes to football's response to racism, Lukaku
compares the racist abuse in football to the European Super
League, a proposed restructure of club football in Europe that
fell apart as a number of teams withdrew following strong
criticism from fans.
>
> Lukaku notes that while the response to the Super League was
intense and organised from fans, response to the issue of racism
has always been comparatively muted. “Why don’t you put the same
energy [as went into Super League protests] also when it comes
to racism? Because they are basically the same platforms.”
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Re: Sports as a platform for protest
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 25, 2021, 11:00 pm
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HTML https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jun/7/lebron-james-most-hated-player-nba-study-finds/
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> Sports analyst David Hookstead noted Mr. James’ selective and
partisan activism and criticism of police, which has led him to
attack an NBA owner for standing up for Hong Kong marchers
protesting a totalitarian government while cheering on Black
Lives Matter protests.
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Same as us! This is not "selective", it is consistent. BLM
opposes police oppression of ethnic minorities. Hong Kong
rightists want democracy (ie. oppression of minorities). But
don't expect Westerners such as Hookstead to understand.
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Re: Sports as a platform for protest
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 29, 2021, 1:37 am
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Re: Sports as a platform for protest
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 3, 2021, 2:52 am
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For entertainment only:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X0b5_LUYGo
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Re: Sports as a platform for protest
DIR By: guest55
Date: July 16, 2021, 11:32 pm
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Beitar-Barcelona match cancelled over Jerusalem
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> A friendly match between FC #Barcelona and Beitar Jerusalem
has been “cancelled” after the Spanish club reportedly refused
to play in Israel.
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Re: Sports as a platform for protest
DIR By: Zea_mays
Date: July 20, 2021, 8:48 am
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Who would have thought? Being able to view individuals as
individuals makes people less tribalist.
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> Can exposure to celebrities from stigmatized groups reduce
prejudice? To address this question, we study the case of
Mohamed Salah, a visibly Muslim, elite soccer player. Using data
on hate crime reports throughout England and 15 million tweets
from British soccer fans, we find that after Salah joined
Liverpool F.C., hate crimes in the Liverpool area dropped by 16%
compared with a synthetic control, and Liverpool F.C. fans
halved their rates of posting anti-Muslim tweets relative to
fans of other top-flight clubs. An original survey experiment
suggests that the salience of Salah’s Muslim identity enabled
positive feelings toward Salah to generalize to Muslims more
broadly. Our findings provide support for the parasocial contact
hypothesis—indicating that positive exposure to out-group
celebrities can spark real-world behavioral changes in
prejudice.
> [...]
> In February 2018, fans of one of England’s most storied soccer
clubs, Liverpool F.C., celebrated a decisive victory in soccer’s
most elite league. A 5-0 win over F.C. Porto in the U.E.F.A.
Champions League previewed an excellent season that saw
Liverpool F.C. advance to the final. Mohamed Salah, a young
Egyptian striker, was key to the club’s success. After the
victory, fans chanted:
> If he scores another few
> Then I’ll be Muslim, too.
> If he’s good enough for you,
> He’s good enough for me.
> Sitting in a mosque,
> That’s where I wanna be.
>
> Fans created more homespun chants as Liverpool F.C. continued
their successful season:
> Mohamed Salah
> A gift from Allah.
> He’s always scoring,
> It’s almost boring.
> So please don’t take
> Mohamed away.
> [...]
> Salah is noteworthy not only for his skill on the soccer
field, but also for his conspicuous Islamic identity—which was
arguably unprecedented in elite soccer. European fans were not
accustomed to seeing players prostrate to perform a Muslim
prayer (sujood) after scoring goals, for example. His popularity
fueled media speculation that Salah’s Muslim identity might be
reducing Islamophobia among fans (The National 2018; Thomas
2018).1 Some pundits argued that Salah portrayed “favorable
images of Muslims, helping to reduce stereotypes and break down
barriers within communities” (Monks 2018).
> [...]
> This “Salah effect” is likely not unique to Salah. Celebrities
with role model-like qualities have long been thought to shape
social attitudes. When Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color
barrier in 1947, his “efforts were a monumental step in the
civil-rights revolution in America … [His] accomplishments
allowed black and white Americans to be more respectful and open
to one another,” according to historian Doris Kearns Goodwin
(Williams and Sielski 2004, 212). British-Bangladeshi Nadiyah
Hussain, the headscarf-clad winner of the most watched program
on British television, The Great British Bake-Off, was credited
with doing “more for British-Muslim relations than 10 years of
government policy” after her 2015 win (Wiseman 2018).
> [...]
> A rich literature documents the relationship between various
forms of intergroup contact and prejudice. The contact
hypothesis posits that personal contact across social lines can
reduce prejudice if that contact is positive, endorsed by
communal authorities, egalitarian, and involves cooperating to
achieve a common goal (Allport 1954). Such contact has been
found to reduce prejudice by alleviating intergroup anxieties,
inducing empathy, highlighting commonalities, and forging
friendships, among other social, emotional, and cognitive
pathways (Pettigrew 1998; Pettigrew and Tropp 2006).
> [...]
> Finally, Salah’s Muslim identity is highly salient. His first
name is recognizably Muslim, he prostrates in prayer after
scoring a goal, and points his index finger to the sky while
reciting the shahada, the Muslim profession of faith. Die-hard
fans will also know that Salah’s daughter, Makka, is named after
Islam’s most sacred site, and his veiled wife can often be seen
cheering him on from the sidelines. Salah is distinctive in this
way: Europe has seen many excellent players of Muslim heritage,
but most are dissociated from Islam in the minds of fans because
of their lack of public piety. By contrast, fan chants centered
on Salah refer to mosques, Muslims, and Allah while the
Liverpool F.C. coach, Jürgen Klopp, has also pointed to Salah’s
religiosity as an integral part of his identity (Bascombe 2019).
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As far as I can tell, Salah isn't even an activist or anything.
Simply by existing and being a decent person, he still makes
people less racist:
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